The President of the National Assembly appoints Serge ABITEBOUL to the Arcep Executive Board

Paris, 16 January 2018

On 12 January 2018, the President of Franc's National Assembly, François
de Rugy, appointed Serge ABITEBOUL to the Arcep Executive Board, starting on
15 January 2018.

Director of Research in computer sciences at the École Normale Supérieure
de Paris and at Inria (the French National Institute for computer science and
applied mathematics), Serge ABITEBOUL has a PhD from the University of Southern
California, and a Doctorate (thèse d'État) from the Université
de Paris-Sud. His work on data, information and knowledge management - notably
on the internet - and his theories on databases earned him membership in the
Academy of Sciences in 2008, and in the Academy of Europe in 2011.

He is also a lecturer at the École Polytechnique and guest lecturer
at Stanford and Oxford University. In 2011, he was appointed to the Collège
de France Research Chair in computer and digital sciences. In 2013, he joined
the French Digital Council, chaired by Benoît Thieulin, and that same
year became President of the Scientific Advisory Board on the Information Society
in France. He as been the chairman of the Fondation Blaise Pascal Strategic
Council since 2017.

The author of numerous publications on data and algorithms, as well as a novelist,
Serge ABITEBOUL is the editor and founder of Blog binaire. He was the
curator of the Terra Data exhibition at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in 2017
and 2018.

Serge ABITEBOUL is taking over from Jacques STERN whose term as a member of
the Arcep Executive Board has come to an end. Arcep salutes the precious contributions
that Jacques STERN made to the Authority's work.

The ARCEP Board is composed of seven members: Sébastien SORIANO, (Chair),
Serge ABITEBOUL, Pierre-Jean BENGHOZI, Philippe DISTLER, Monique LIEBERT-CHAMPAGNE,
Martine LOMBARD, with a seventh to be appointed in the coming days. Three of
the members are appointed by the President of France. The four others are appointed,
respectively, by the President of the French National Assembly and the President
of the Senate. The members are appointed for an irrevocable and non-renewable,
six-year term.